Overview

• The arrests took place on August 15 in Ibiza under European arrest warrants issued by Italian authorities and processed through Spain’s National Court.
• Two home searches in Ibiza and Barcelona yielded €35,000 in cash, high-value jewelry including a watch valued at €120,000, false identity documents, drugs, mobile phones and other records now under analysis.
• The investigative judge at Juzgado Central de Instrucción No. 1 ordered the three suspects into pre-trial detention.
• Spain’s Policía Nacional worked with the ROS unit of the Arma dei Carabinieri, with Eurojust facilitating judicial cooperation for the cross-border case.
• Police characterize the operation as high-risk due to the detainees’ dangerousness, and officials say the probe follows monitoring of the ’Ndrangheta’s expansion in Spain since 2024.